Global Communities:
U.S. History 4340
Summer Assignment/Preparation for
Honors
We are excited to work with you all next year as we continue
your exploration of Global Communities Program, focusing more on United States
history and culture. The honors section of the class will be a unique mix of
preparation for the Advanced Placement exam and other in-depth exploration of
class ideas and sources. Consequently, at times your work will look like the
work that your peers in standard AP courses are doing, but at other times your
work will look considerably different. In any case, we will expect you to go
into greater depth than your Advanced College Prep and College Prep colleagues,
and you will do independent work, as well as your prepare for the AP exam.
To prepare you for the fall, please do the following two
items this summer:
1. Read chapters 1-5 in the following AP prep book, and take
notes on the attached study guide. Like your AP peers, you’ll have a review
test on this material with in the first week of school.
Newman, John J. and Schmalbach,
John M. United States History: Preparing
for the Advanced
Placement Examination. NY: AMSCO
Publications, Inc., 2010.
The book can be purchased online for less than $20,
especially if you get a barely used copy. In addition, former AP students may
have old copies they’d give you or sell you cheaply. Please note that this
is NOT the newly released version of the AMSCO US history preparatory book;
that version is selling for $40 online, and we do not expect you to buy that.
During the course of the year, you will be required to read
and take notes from this book to supplement the regular textbook readings. We
will refer to this book as AMSCO during the year. Chapters 1 through much of chapter 5 review the material for the review
test in September, which will cover through the Revolution.
2. Also, read chapters 27 to 30 in your AMSCO book
and take notes on the key ideas in those chapters; we may have less time to
review this material (roughly 1950 to the present) later in the year, so it’s
important that you become somewhat familiar with it now, to help us be more
effective in preparing for the AP examination come April and May. Take it from
this year’s Junior Honors section: you’ll be glad you did this come springtime,
when we’re reviewing for the AP test! This
material will NOT be on the initial quiz in September.
Have a restful and fun break, and look forward to some good
work this upcoming year! If you have any questions, you can email Mr. Thompson
at andrew_thompson@newton.k12.ma.us
or Ms. Eng at lily_engshine@newton.k12.ma.us.
Global Junior Honors Colonial History Review Sheet
The following terms are arranged by topic and generally by
textbook chapter. In a couple cases, the terms may not be in AMSCO. If that’s
so, you should consult another source, such as a Brinkley book or one of these
online resources: http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/cards.php
EXPLORATION (Chapter 1)
Motivation for exploration
Technology
Financing
exploration
Portuguese,
Spanish, French, English Explorers and the race for empires
Treaty of Tordisellas
Origin of
Native Americans
Native American
tribal culture
Meso-American
cultures: Maya and Aztec
South American
culture: Inca
Eastern North
American culture: Iroquois
Ethnocentrism,confrontation,exploitation,disease
Spanish
conquest
Spanish social,
political, and economic domination
French social,
political, and economic system in New World
French
relations with American Indians
ENGLISH
SETTLE IN NORTH AMERICA (Chapters 1-3)
Roanoke
Jamestown
English
colonial charters
Joint Stock
companies
House of
Burgesses
Early English colonial economy
Slavery in
English colonies
Headright
system/indentured servants
English view of
colonies and colonists
3 types of
English colonies
Separatists/Mayflower
Compact
Puritans and
Mass. Bay Colony
Patterns of
settlement and village growth
Society and
government of Mass. Bay
Puritan
oligarchy
Dissent in Mass. Bay
Pequot War
King Philip's
War
The Restoration
Colonies
Georgia and
Oglethorpe
Society and
cultures of the Northern, Middle, Southern colonies
Frontier/conflict of Piedmont vs. coastal elite
Economic
development of colonial regions
British
mercantilism/Period of Salutary Neglect
The Dominion of
New England
Divergence
between the English colonies and the homeland
Effects of land
and indentured servants on colonial society
Structure and
function of English colonial government; early government precedents in
colonies
Family life in
the colonies
Slavery and the
slave system in the English colonies
British restriction
on colonial economic growth
The Great
Awakening
The
Enlightenment
Education and
literacy in the colonies
Colonial
science
FRENCH
& INDIAN WAR (Chapter 4)
Land, fur,
Indians and power
European
politics
Fort Necessity
& George Washington
Fort Duquesne
& Braddock's Defeat
Course of the
war until William Pitt
Battle of
Quebec
Treaty of Paris
& The English Empire
Effects of the
war on American colonists
Effects of the
war on England
GROWING
TENSIONS (Chapter 4)
Reasons for England re-asserting control
Pontiac's
Revolt
Proclamation
Line/American resentment
Navigation
Acts/Writs of Assistance
Stamp Act/Stamp
Act Congress/Sons of Liberty
Paxton
Boys/Regulators
American
reaction to Acts and Taxes
Declaratory Act
Townshend
Duties/Committees of Correspondence
Boston Massacre
Rights of
English Subjects/The Enlightenment Ideology and philosophy of the Revolution
Virtual vs.
Actual Representation
Loyalist/Rebel
points of view
Tea Tax/Tea
Party/English outrage
Coercive Acts
THE REVOLUTION (Chapter 5)
lst Continental Congress/Suffolk Resolves
Lexington &
Concord/Bunker Hill
The Declaration of Independence & Ideology
Sovereignty of
the people/Rights of Man
2nd Continental
Congress & its role
Loyalists,
Blacks, Women during the war
Financing the
War
Battles &
Campaigns
Continental Army/militia
Siege of Boston
Battle of New York/Hessians
Fall of Philadelphia
Valley Forge
Burgoyne and Saratoga
1778 Treaty with France
Western campaign
Southern campaign/British strategy/
Yorktown/Treaty of Paris
THE
CONFEDERATION PERIOD (Chapter 5)
Assumptions of republicanism
Nature of the new state governments
Voter qualifications
Revision of state constitutions
Virginia Statute of Religious Liberties
The question of slavery; actions of Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania
The problem of emancipation
Growth of abolitionist activity
Structure of the Confederation Government
Powers and problems of the Confederation Congress
The western land issue/land speculation
Achievements of the Confederation
Diplomatic problems of the new nation
Westward expansion
Land Ordinance of 1785
Townships
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Postwar depression and the problem of debt in the states
Shays’ Rebellion and the specter of anarchy
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